My whole take on libertarianism is simply that I don't know what's best for other people.

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.

You get no moral credit for forcing other people to do what you think is right.

Atheism is the absence of religion. We don’t really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.

If you are doing something for reward or punishment, you do not have morality.

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

I think voting for the lesser of two evils in game theory always leads to more evil.

Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things.

Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

Truth is independent of all dogmas, ancient or modern.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

National security - the military is the first thing we should spend money on. You have to fully fund that first. And then you should be paying for everything else.

It is always a tense moment for an author to see how someone hasillustrated his or her story, because the author has lived for so long with these characters, sometimes for years.

If you'd been taken by the Capital and hijacked and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?

If you turn to God once, He will turn to you a million times.

I don't go to church so much, but I do believe in God and I understand the consequences of faith.

There have been many frustrating games. I don't there's going to be another one that isn't frustrating. That happens, but that's sport. Otherwise why would there be so much glory in victory.